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SIGNAL.

APPLICATION FIFED MAR. 12, 1921. 1,418,346. I aten edJune 6, 1922.

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Be it known that l, ALFRED E. VVrr'rIG, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Signals, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to signals and an object thereof is to provide a signal which may be quickly projected or retracted and which, when in retracted form, is collapsed into a small space. A further ob ject of the invention is to provide a sectional signal arm, the members of which are foldably connected together so that the arm may be retracted into a collapsed position.

To these and other ends the invention consists of certain parts and combinations of parts, all of which will be hereinafter described, the novel features being pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 shows in plan with a part broken away, the signal attached to the fragment of an automobile so as to project from one side of the latter;

Fig. 2 is a horizontal section through the signal;

Fig. 3 shows the signal arm projected, parts being in vertical section;

Fig. 41 shows the signal arm partially projected with parts of the support in section;

Fig. 5 is a face view of the case in which the signal arm is collapsed; and

Fig. 6 is a section on the line 6--6, Fig. 2.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 1 indicates a portion of a motor vehicle on which the signal is attached, as by clips 2. The signal, in this instance, embodies a casing 3 in the form of a compartment open at one side. From this compartment or casing a tubing extends, the tubing, in this instance, being projected at 4t from one side of the vehicle and having a portion 4 deflected at substantially a right angle to the portion 1 and running substantially parallel with a side of the vehicle.

The signal also embodies a signal arm or member consisting preferably of a number of sections or plates indicated at 5*, 5", 5, 5 and 5 these sections being hinged together at (3. The inner section is preferably pivotally connected at 7 to the casing 3 at the middle of said casing and in line with the tubing 1, this section being about half the width of the intermediate sections 5*, 5 and Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 6, 1922. 1921. Serial no. 451,743.

5, and the latter being substantially the same length. This arrangement permits the arm to fold so that the sections may lie in substantially parallel relation with the casing 3, the plane of said sectionswhen folded, extending substantially at right angles to the direction of the arm when the latter is projected.

Any suitable means may be employed for projecting and retracting the arm. In this instance, the intermediate sections 5*, 5 and 5 are provided with longitudinally extending slots 8, while the inner end of the section 5 is notched at 8 Through this notch 8 and. the slots of the intermediate sections, the operating means extends to connect with the outer section a The operating means in the illustrated embodiment embodies telescoping member formed of an outer section 9 which is pivoted at 9 at a point on the section 5 about the middle of Said section. This section 9 operates in a tube 10 which in turn operates in a tube 11, the whole member being adapted to be received within the portion a of the tubing by which the casing 3 is supported, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings. For effecting the extension and collapsing of the telescoping member, there may be provided a flexible operating device which operates in the tubing 4% and 4P and is connected to the outer section 9 of the telescoping member. This flexible member, in this instance, comprises an outer portion 12 1n the form of a wire coil, and an inner portion 13 in the form of a flexible spring wire forming a continuation of the coil and connected at 1 1 to the section 9 of the telescoping member. The coil 12 may have at its outer end a finger piece 15 extending through a slot 16 in the side wall of the tubing portion at.

In the operation of the invention assuming that the parts are in the positions shown in Fig. 2, the operating portion 15 is shifted and causes the telescoping member formed by the parts 9, 10 and 11 to be projected to the position shown in Fig. 3. When the telescoping member is extended, the wire portion 14 lies within the tube 10, and the spring portion 12 extends within the tube 11. To retract the signal, the finger piece 15 is moved in the opposite direction and this draws the sectional arm into the casing 3 in the manner indicated in Fig. 2.

From the foregoing it will be seen that there has been provided a direction signal in which the signal arm is formed of a plurality of hinged sections adapted to fold in parallel relation in planes transverse of the line which the signal arm occupies when projected or extended. The inner section is shorter than the intermediate sections and is pivoted or hinged at a point substantially in line with the line of projection of the arm. An operating means of novel construc tion is pivotally connected to the outer sec tion and extends through openings or slots in the intermediate sections. This operating means, in this instance, is in the form of a telescoping member which may be collapsed to one side of the plane of the arm sections when the latter are in folded positions.

Some features of this invention are found in an application filed by me on the 15th day of August, 1919, Serial No. 817,721, and as to these features this application is a clivisional.

WVhat I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A signal comprising a suitable support, a sectional arm having the sections hinged together and adapted to be extended, the inner section being shorter than the intermediate sections and pivotally connected to the support substantially in a plane with the arm when extended, the sections being foldable to lie in overlapping relation in planes transverse of the projected plane of the arm, and operatingmeans for the arm connected to the outer section extending through the other sections in a line which intersects the hinged connection of the inner member with the support,

2. A signal comprising a suitable support, a sectional arm having the sections hinged together and adaptedto be extended, the inner section being shorter than the intermediate sections and p-ivotally connected to the support, and the intermediate sections being provided with openings, and an operating means extending through said openings of the intermediate sections, holding said sectional arm against lateral swinging and pivotally connected to the outer section.

3. A signal comprising a suitable support, a sectional arm having the sections hinged together and adapted tobe extended, the inner sections being shorter than the intermediate sections, and pivotally connected to the support, and the intermediate sections being provided with openings, and a telescoping operating member extending through said openings or the intermediate sections, holding said sectional arm against lateral swinging and pivotally connected to the outer section.

4. A signal comprising a supporting casing, a sectional arm having sections hinged together and adapted to be extended, the inner section being shorter than the intermediate sections and pivotally connected to the casing near the middle of the latter, and operating means for the sectional arm pivotally connected to the outer section and adapted to move the sections of the arm within the supporting casing.

"5. In combination with a supporting casing having a tube extending therefrom, a sectional arm foldable within said casing, and an operating arm "formed of a plurality of telescoping parts for the signal arm arranged to telescope in said tube.

6. A signal comprising a casing, a tube extending from said casing, a signal arm formed of a plurality of sections, the inner one of which is shorter than the intermediate sections and is pivotally connected to the casing near the middle of the latter, and a telescoping operating member for the signal arm pivotally connected to the outer section of the signal arm near the middle of the latter and adapted to be collapsed within the tube.

7. A signal comprising a casing, a tube extending from said casing, a signal arm formed of a plurality of sections, the inner one of which is pivotally connected to the casing, a telescoping operating member for the signal arm pivotally connected to the outer section of the signal arm and adapted to be collapsed within the tubular member, and flexible operating means connected to said telescoping member and operating in the tubular member.

8. A signal comprising a suitable support, a sectional arm having its sections hinged together and adapted to be extended, its inner sections being pivotally connected to the support and its intermediate sections provided with openings, and an operating member extending through said openings, holding said arm against lateral swinging and connected to the outer member.

ALFRED E. WITTIG. 

